links to iran in activities and terrorist networks that really most analysts didn t think were there. they just think he wasn t suited for that job and that he wasn t really suited for that kind of service in washington. as good as he was as an intel officer in the military in combat zones in places like baghdad and afghanistan, it just didn t work very well when you tried to put him in a civilian environment like the d.i.a. or perhaps a senior job at the white house. well, as your colleague david ignatius has written today, it looks like he has come all the way through the looking glass and made this complete circle. and his column today complements your reporting. our thanks to greg miller for returning to our broadcast and again to our audience. his book is the apprentice: trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. after a break coming up for us we knew it was going to be emotional, and it was, but it was the awkwardness of today
there. they just think he wasn t suited for that job and that he wasn t really suited for that kind of service in washington. as good as he was as an intel officer in the military in combat zones in places like baghdad and afghanistan, it just didn t work very well when you tried to put him in a civilian environment like the d.i.a. or perhaps a senior job at the white house. well, as your colleague david ignatius has written today, it looks like he has come all the way through the looking glass and made this complete circle. and his column today complements your reporting. our thanks to greg miller for returning to our broadcast and again to our audience. his book is the apprentice: trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. after a break coming up for us we knew it was going to be emotional, and it was, but it was the awkwardness of today that we couldn t predict until it played out in real time. we ll have that when we
andr andrew mccabe. the spokeswoman tweeted andrew mccabe s security clearance was deactivated when he was terminated according to what we were told was fbi policy. you would think the white house would check with the fbi before trying to throw shiny objects. just wanted to add that in. your reaction to all of this? this is not particularly surprising. i mean, this kind of petty and personal vendetta out of the theater of trump really doesn t surprise me. at the end of the day to a certain extent one security clearance as a former intel officer is your ticket to ride in washington. but i think at this level all of these men and susan rice included, really are going to be able to continue professionally. there s no reason to yank any of their security your security clearance is tied to what risk you pose to handle classified information. being critical of the president
the sentence should have been, i don t see any reason why i wouldn t, or why it wouldn t be russians. president obama, along with the whole group on television, probably getting paid a lot of money by your networks, they knew about russia s attempt to interfere in the election in september, and they totally buried it. laura: bingo. that last point, of course, has gotten much hysterical coverage of the controversy these past two days. i ve never seen anything like it. but can president trump successfully quell the rage from its critics? some on the right and the left. he is a russia expert, director of the wilson s center institute, former intel officer, along with doctor, a fox news former affairs analyst. great to have you on. i have never witnessed a
chemical agent was used. he said that they are certain that chlorine was used and it is possible if not probable that sarin was used. but as of yesterday, he was convinced that at least one chemical agent had been used by the syrian regime. he was very confident that the syrian regime was behind that chemical attack on april 4th. laura. jennifer griffin, thank you so much. and joining us now, chris and former intel officer. great to see you tonight. we always pray for our troops in harm s way on nights like tonight. let s get your sense on this. we were talking a little earlier about syria, like iraq, extremely complicated place. i think we in america think of the middle east all as one place. and it s the exact opposite of that. it s like 100 places. tell us about syria on the